The book had good success,so Logan wanted to see if he could repeat it with a counting book. He recruited me to write the thing, and Mina Sanwald, an illustrator and animator out of New York, to draw the thing. She's pretty awesome--she's worked with Bill Plympton and does a lot of work with Copic Markers-- I don't mean drawing, I mean stuff like how she's taken over the Copic marker twitter account this weekend to cover New York Comic Con.

Naturally, me being me, I wasn't going to turn in "One apple. Two dolphins" and call it a day. I wanted this book to actually have a story.

But I also knew the book wasn't really going to be about the words--it was going to be about the art. Logan actually got his start selling prints, and part of the goal of this project was to produce a lot of pictures that people would also want to buy to put on their wall.

The result was a lot of fun. It was a lot like comic book writing in the sense that I was trying to create visuals that would be interesting, but not get so in-depth about the visuals that the artist just felt like they were drawing my picture. In some ways, this project was about restraint. Tell the story in few words, because it was really about the pictures and the counting, and evoke cool pictures, but leave enough to the artist that she could have fun with it.